If you can't do what you want, do what you can.
The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.
Only friendship which can stand occasional plain speaking is worth having.
Even in despair, man must laugh.
Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them.
Nothing matters to a man who says nothing matters.
What is patriotism but love of the good things we ate in our childhood? I have said elsewhere that the loyalty to Uncle Sam is the loyalty to doughnuts and ham and sweet potatoes and the loyalty to the German Vaterland is the loyalty to Pfannkuchen and Christmas Stollen. As for international understanding, I feel that macaroni has done more for our appreciation of Italy than Mussolini. . . in food, as in death, we feel the essential brotherhood of mankind.
In every science certain things must be accepted as first principles if the subject matter is to be understood; and these first postulates rest upon faith.
My favorite characters are the ones that are the most successful movies.
Whether you can go back in time is held in the grip of the law of quantum gravity. We are several decades away from a definitive understanding, 20 or 30 years, but it could be sooner than that.
Our conscience, our faith, our local community, even our online hobby clubs - all civilize us.